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School

McMaster University

Department

English

Course

ENGLISH 1C06

Professor

Jeffery Donaldson

Semester

Winter

Description

Day 3
January 14/2013
English 1C06
Frankenstein:
Mary Shelley
- 1797-1851
- Daughter of…
o William Godwin
o Mary Wollstonecraft
- Marries Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like Frankenstein’s monster:
- Education as a “cobbling together of parts” i.e. others’ influences, wide reading
Narrative Structure
Novel Genre:
- Epistolary
o More personal, less authoritative
o What one hears and know from another
o Walton’s letters are themselves accounts of a story narrated to him
Narrative Structure
- The frame of Walton’s encounter in the Arctic
- The period of Frankenstein’s narration is the period of his health
- When he finished the story, he begins to decline.
Imaginative Cosmology:
- The kind of world that a novelist projects that is implied in at least every word or phrase
- The story inhabits a particular world and the laws/orientation of that world is implicated in the story
- Takes on a variety of different forms
o Where creative powers come from
o Individual characters perceive their own understanding to the world they are moving to is
different than what we see
 The monster’s understanding of the world he lives in as well as Victor’s are different
from one another Day 3